Sanitary appliance.



H. Gfx BRGTT,

SANITARY APPLIANGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17, 1907.

912,280, Petented Feb. 16, 1909.

Chrom-ms UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIO. f

HOWARD GLEN BROTT, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO SANITARY TOILETAPPLIANCE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA TERRITORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1e, 1909.

Application filed April 17, 1907. serial No.V 368,717.

ycontact with an unsanitary or dirty seat.

The object of the invent-ion is to provide in closeproximity to a watercloset a store of paper in a roll of sufficient superficial area toentirely cover the seat, each sheet or section of paper having anopening therein approximately as large and substantially the same shapeas the opening in the seat. After using a sheet it is to be thrown awaypreferably in the closet hopper.

In the accompanying drawings t-fFigure 1 is a perspective view of awater closet hopper and seat with the improved appliance in operativeuse. Fig. 2 is a detail in per spective, and partly broken away.

Similar numerals of reference indicate the same parts on all thefigures.

In public and semi-public places, where the toilet rooms are open forindiscriminate occupation, there are always some persons who make use ofthem that are filthy in their habits and have no conception ofsanitation; others use the place who are suffering with contagiousdiseases, while -still others are naturally careless in their habits. Itis to protect those persons who are careful and' cleanly but arecompelled to use these public places that the herein described inventionis designed.

In the drawing, the numeral 1 indicates a water closet hopper of anytype provided with a seat 2 having the usual opening 3. Attached in someconvenient position, preferably at the rear of the seat, and slightlyabove it, is a casing 4, of cylindrical form, and, it may be, slightlywider than the seat 2. Within the casing and mounted on a shaft 5 is aroll of paper 6 as wide as the seat and provided with openings 7, aboutthe size and shape of the opening 3 in the seat, at regular intervals inits, length. Between each two openings 7 is punched a' row of transverseperforations 8 so that the paper may be torn across at these points. Thelength of the portion of paper between the perforations is approximatelythe length of the seat.

The casing 4 is attached to a fixed supportl 9 by lugs 10 on the casing,screwed to said fixed support. The casing 4 opens at one end, and isclosed by a cap 11, with a central perforation 12, through which theshaft 5 projects when the cap is in place on the casing. other end in abracket 13, secured to the closed end 14 of the casing, on the insidethereof. A flat spring 15 is fastened to the casing, on the insidethereof, in such a position as to bear against the end of the roll ofpaper, to prevent it unwinding too rapidly.

A continuous web of paper, having the perforations and the openingstherethrough, as heretofore described, is wound on a Wooden rollerprovided with a central longitudinal bore, to receive the shaft 5. Thisroll is placed on the shaft 5, and pushed into the casing 4, through itsopenend, after removing the cap 11, the end of the paper extendingthrough a slot '16, inthe bottom of the casing. When the paper is to beused,

a sufficient quantity is drawn from the roll,

to cover the seat, with the opening therein over the opening in theseat. After use the piece of paper is separated at the perforations andthrown into the ho per.

From the above descriptlon it will be noted that, whatever the conditionof the top of the seat, by the use of this invention, a pure, cleansurface, never before used, is always at hand to cover the seat, andwhich, after use, can be thrown away., The texture of the paper will besuch as will best serve the purpose.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is A sanitaryappliance comprising a longi- The shaft 5 is supported at the,

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said cap being provided with a bearing opening, a bearing' bracketinside the casing, a shaft extending longitudinally through the casingand having one of its ends mounted in the bracket, and its other endmounted in the opening of the cap, and extending therethrough to theoutside of the casing, means on the projecting end of the shaft forturn-A ing the same, said shaft being adapted t0 my own, I have heretoafxed my signature hold e roll of paper, and to be fed out for in thepresence of tWo Witnesses. use through the slot of the casing, and aspring extending across the shaft and ar- HOWARD GLEN BRUT-T 5 ranged tobear laterally on one end of said Witnesses:

roll, to retard the unwindng thereof. HARRY A. LooMIs,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as RALPH G. STICH.

